Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 3
“We invite our mother to take her chair, leaving this little court and room, and go with us to enjoy the pleasures and blessings granted by Heaven to the restored House of Tu.”
Who acts: We, mother · What happens: invite, take, leave, go, enjoy, grant · To what, where: mother, chair, little court, pleasures, restored House
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 invite | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 invite | nsubj |
| 3 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invite | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 invite | xcomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 chair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaving | punct |
| 11 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 take | advcl |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 court | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 court | amod |
| 14 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaving | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 room | cc |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 court | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 invite | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 go | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 enjoy | mark |
| 23 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pleasures | det |
| 25 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 enjoy | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 blessings | cc |
| 27 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pleasures | conj |
| 28 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 pleasures | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 Heaven | case |
| 30 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 granted | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 House | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 House | det |
| 33 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 House | amod |
| 34 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 granted | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Tu | case |
| 36 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 House | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invite | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 invite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite in a quote | present | We | our mother | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | our mother not said here | her chair | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | gerund | our mother not said here | this little court and room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | with us | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with we=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | enjoy in a quote | to-infinitive | the pleasures and blessings | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pleasure=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | grant in a quote | participle | the pleasures and blessings not said here | the restored House of Tu | by Heaven | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to house=Goal | |||
| 7 | restore in a quote | participle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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